Classifications

• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E21—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; MINING
  • E21B—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
  • E21B17/00—Drilling rods or pipes; Flexible drill strings; Kellies; Drill collars; Sucker rods; Cables; Casings; Tubings
  • E21B17/02—Couplings; joints
  • E21B17/04—Couplings; joints between rod or the like and bit or between rod and rod or the like
  • E21B17/046—Couplings; joints between rod or the like and bit or between rod and rod or the like with ribs, pins, or jaws, and complementary grooves or the like, e.g. bayonet catches
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E21—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; MINING
  • E21B—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
  • E21B7/00—Special methods or apparatus for drilling
  • E21B7/20—Driving or forcing casings or pipes into boreholes, e.g. sinking; Simultaneously drilling and casing boreholes
  • E21B7/208—Driving or forcing casings or pipes into boreholes, e.g. sinking; Simultaneously drilling and casing boreholes using down-hole drives

Definitions

• This invention relates to a method according to the introduction part of patent claim 1 and to a bit assembly according to the introduction part of patent claim 5 to realize the method on drilling a hole or tunnel in the soil and to a drill bit accord ⁇ ing to patent claim 8.
• the advantage of this invention is that a hole requiring a pro ⁇ tection tube is drilled with the same bit assembly as a hole into rock.
• drilling proceeds nonstop with the inner bit only.
• the inner bit can be pulled out through the outer bit.
• Even the outer bit can be pulled out from the bore on condition that also the protection tube is pulled out simultaneously.
• the bit assembly and the method can be applied to drilling by hammering but also to bits rotating only.
• the groove in the bayonet joint that opens in both of the axial directions is favourably arranged as a flow channel for flushing medium, whereat the joint is a simple construction.
• Fig. 1 shows a section of the bit assembly along line A-A.
• Fig. 2 shows the bit assembly viewed from the front.
• Fig. 3 shows the inner bit surface viewed from one side.
• Fig. 4 shows a section of bore, where drilling proceeds by the inner bit only.
• Fig. 5 shows a cross-section of the ring bit.
• Figure 1 illustrates a section of the bit assembly including a cylindric inner bit 1 fastened to the head of hammer 7, a ring- shaped outer bit 2 around the inner bit and a protection tube 4 mounted in the hole while drilling and reaching the outer shell of outer bit 2.
• the inner bit 1 and outer bit 2 are intercon ⁇ nected by a bayonet joint, where rotation is transmitted to the outer bit by the inner bit.
• the inner bit 1 also transmits the hammer impacts to outer bit 2.
• Outer bit 2 pulls protection tube 4 into the hole by means of the joint lap between them, which has restriction for the mutual axial motion.
• Figure 2 shows that in the circle between bits 1 and 2 three bayonet joints are placed, where in the inner bit 1 three axial grooves 6 are formed to run through the bit.
• inner bit 2 three projecting parts with the same spacing and moving in grooves 6.
• bits 1 and 2 are in locked state and bit 2 is rotated by bit 1, while the locking is re ⁇ tained.
• the locking is opened by reverse rotation.
• Projecting parts 3 are square in order to receive by a bigger face the impacts from the inner bit and to transmit them to the outer bit.
• Groove 6 of bit 1 is also a flow channel for the flushing medium, whose direction of flow, in this case, is backward in the channel.
• Figure 5 illustrates an example of ring bit 2 with several pro ⁇ jecting parts 3 for several sequentially arranged axial bayonet joints, by means of which construction a face to transmit impacts to ring bit 2 is produced.
• the protection tube is pulled with several sequential shoulder faces.
• By means of a method and a bit assembly as per this invention it is possible to carry out, advantageously, s.c. anchoring dril ⁇ ling, whereat drilling is done by the outer bit till hitting rock and a certain distance by the inner bit in the rock.
• the inner bit 1 is characterized in that on its outer shell there are transvers ring grooves 8 ending in a vertikal wall 9.
• the groove 8 flanks function as faces transmitting impacts to ring bit 2 and the face 9 as rotation-transmitting means.
• the outer shell of bit 1 lacks stepped impact-transmitting shoulders known from previous designs.
• both vertical as well as horizontal holes can be drilled.
• the axial groove of the bayonet joint can be also in the ring bit and the projecting part in the inner bit.

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• Electrical Discharge Machining, Electrochemical Machining, And Combined Machining (AREA)
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• 1994
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• 1995
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